blueteamnovel Chapter 202: The Siege of Fortress LaPolca (2)
Chapter 202: The Siege of Fortress LaPolca (2)
chapter 202: the siege of fortress lapolca (2)
the exhausted elven soldiers left the fighting to the newly arrived soldiers and went down the stairs to find another squad of soldiers waiting at the bottom of the stairs.
after fighting for eight hours straight, the exhausted elven soldiers headed for a resting place near the center of fortress lapolca.
they ate quickly and went into a temporary building with baths set up for field use.
(that’s a good sign. the elves are puzzled, though. well, the magical beasts are definitely not going to let the elves rest this time.)
allen was using e-rank bird to check if the elves were following his strategy.
and over the course of many hours of battle, he had analyzed the strategy of the demon king’s army based on the movements of the magical beasts.
the movement of the demon king’s army was clearly different from the tiamo siege where they came with a large army before.
magical beasts advancing southward across the ocean had been ordered to not let allen rest, while those not participating in the battle had been resting. that was an effective strategy against humans and elves, who were more easily fatigued than magical beasts.
he analyzed that it was a strategy that was possible because the demon king’s army had millions of magical beasts in tow.
with so many of them, the number of magical beasts who had to fight all the time would only be a fraction of the total number.
if the non-participating magical beasts rested, they could continue to attack the elves all day and all night long.
twenty-four hours a day, millions of troops were constantly on the offensive, trying to bring down fortress lapolca.
(one thing the demon king’s army disappoints me is that they took the same strategy in the ocean as well as in fortress lapolca. if i hadn’t known about this strategy, it might have been pretty tough.)
allen, fighting on the ocean, started the battle two days earlier than the siege of fortress lapolca.
thanks to that, he was able to predict that the demon king’s army would follow similar strategies.
the demon king’s army was very quick in executing strategies. that was probably due to the fact that they had a strong chain of command and a small number of people who served as executives.
however, that was also the reason why the army was following the same strategy with little change and thus allen was easily able to predict how they would attack fortress lapolca this time.
allen’s strategy was to divide the 300,000 or so elven soldiers in fortress lapolca into three groups.
a group in battle, a group in reserve, and a group who would rest, were to be rotated every eight hours.
eight hours after the battle began the first change occured.
allen had introduced a three-shift shift system war in this world.
the role of the soldiers waiting in reserve was to respond if ever the formation of the fighting soldiers’ group were to be broken.
some of the soldiers looked quite anxious, wondering if they could manage with only 100,000 soldiers fighting at a time.
in order for the 100,000 soldiers to be able to hold their own, i decided to use my commander summons and [blessing of heaven] more than ever before to compensate.
after taking a bath, the soldiers went into buildings that had been converted into temporary resting facilities.
(okay, everyone’s sound asleep.)
“it’s wonderful. as expected of master allen.”
ellie checked the inside of the building and said.
the soldiers, who had been excited by the deadly battle just an hour ago, were already sleeping soundly.
some magical beasts had piercing effects in their skills that nullified and bypassed the receiver’s [endurance], or had skills that lowered [endurance].
i was overconfident that they’d be absolutely fine, so the 4 mirrors were regularly subjected to recovery magic by my elven recovery team.
the commander mirror uses its round shield to peel off the magical beasts that were crawling up the wall, which was as tall as it, by force.
in response to commander mirror’s attack, a robed skeleton pointed a staff with a red jewel on its tip from behind.
at the tip of the staff, a huge circle of flames was created by magic, and it flew to burn down the elves on the wall.
(oh, lucky. use [internal reflection].)
“...”
the flames bounced on the circular, shiny shield of commander mirror flew back and spread over a wide area in front of the skeleton who had thrown it.
the flames released by the skeleton were tripled to burn the insect-type magical beasts to ashes.
(it’s still important to reflect all a-rank magical beasts’ skills. the speed of annihilation is slow, but the west and east aren’t originally designed to be defended by elves. it’s all about balance here.)
fortress lapolca, built to protect the north and south, was not ready for an east-west attack.
therefore, i left those sides to b-rank dragons and b-rank insects to defend. for that reason, the number of elven soldiers in those walls was smaller than in the northern and southern walls.
more time passed.
the sun was setting, but the magical beasts did not stop fighting, using magic and lighting large torches to see.
as i had predicted, the demon king’s army didn’t stop the siege after the sunset.
after 16 hours, the soldiers who had been standing by as reserves climbed the wall and stood on the front lines, and the soldiers who had been fighting up until then descended from the stairs to take a rest. the change of positions proceeded swiftly.
more time passed, and it was midnight and the day changed.
“now let’s go to bed.”
“yes. please take a good night’s rest, master allen.”
ellie picked up on my monolog.
i was also on my second night of battle against the demon king’s army in the ocean.
i cleaned up the magical beasts on top of the sea dragon looking magical beasts that had already been defeated after having their heads crushed and returned to bed for the night.
i took off my clothes, moved the grimoire over my head and took a shower using the water inside.
my grimoire contained a pool full of water.
i had a change of night clothes and plenty of food.
(i think i killed about 150,000 of them today. i told them i’d be back in five days, so i need to be more efficient. since the magical beasts are coming at me with all their might, my goal for tomorrow is 200,000. i guess i’ll have to fight my way into the center more.)
after the shower, i reflected on the second day’s battle while eating mormo nuts, and thought of more efficient ways to destroy them.
i always found thinking of new plans and verifying them through practice the next day to be the most enjoyable.
then i moved to the back of commander griff. even though i was on top of a large sea dragon magical beast, it was not safe because there were also magical beasts in the ocean and they could attack at any time.
allen took a brief nap on the back of commander griff.